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...are rapidly working behind the scenes to make the Rwanda scheme workable before legislation returns to parliament next week for its final rounds of “ping pong” between the House of Commons and House of Lords...
...The House of Lords on Wednesday insisted on further changes to the government’s flagship Rwanda asylum bill, dashing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s hopes of the measure becoming law this week....
...Some 274 members of the UK’s upper house voted for the amendment, tabled by the Labour Lord Vernon Coaker, with 102 voting against it....
...The House of Lords abandoned efforts late on Monday night to amend the government’s bill, after failing in the last of many attempts to introduce safeguards into the legislation....
...Home Office minister Lord Sharpe insisted during the debate that there was nothing in the bill that conflicted with the UK’s legal obligations....
...UK MPs have voted to overturn four amendments to the Safety of Rwanda bill after the government declined to make concessions to peers in the House of Lords who have opposed plans to remove asylum seekers...
...Two founders of the Teesworks regeneration project chaired by Lord Ben Houchen have accused the Conservative mayor overseeing the scheme of “total incompetence” they claimed would cost taxpayers hundreds...
...The 110-vote majority in favour of the amendment marked Sunak’s biggest defeat in the Lords since he became prime minister....
...Lord David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary, said: “While we must let the judicial process run its course, I am deeply concerned by allegations of British nationals carrying out criminal activity on...
...It added that it had invited Jewish community leaders, police and crime officials from the London mayor’s office, and members of the House of Lords to a meeting where it would take participants through a...
...Hakluyt, the corporate consultancy founded by ex-MI6 intelligence officers, is appointing former UK Conservative party leader Lord William Hague as chair of its international advisory board....
...The bill will return to the Lords on Tuesday, where peers are again due to reject the government’s changes....
...Overseen by Conservative mayor Lord Ben Houchen, it has become highly controversial due to concerns about transparency, governance and the role of private developers....
...The allegations were first made in a biography by former Conservative deputy chair Lord Michael Ashcroft — which was serialised in the Mail on Sunday newspaper....
...Rwanda asylum bill is “fundamentally incompatible” with the UK’s human rights obligations, a cross-party parliamentary committee has warned, as the legislation is set to undergo scrutiny in the House of Lords...
...The taxpayer-funded Teesside regeneration body chaired by Lord Ben Houchen faces a potential legal bill of more than £4mn after losing an action in London’s High Court against Britain’s fifth biggest port...
...The NAO findings came as UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda bill returned for the second time on Wednesday to the House of Lords....
...Lord David Anderson KC, former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation in the UK, told the BBC that the definition was “extremely broad” and risked catching both sides of the trans rights debate....
...Lord David Cameron, the UK’s foreign minister, last week urged the Hong Kong government to reconsider the draft....
...Top stories today Labour U-turn over Lords | Labour is delaying plans to abolish the House of Lords as Britain’s main opposition party hones its policy platform ahead of the general election expected this...
...In the foreword to the report, Lord David Blunkett, the former Labour cabinet minister who is now one of the party’s policy advisers, wrote: “By placing financial education more prominently in the primary...
...The Teesworks regeneration body chaired by Lord Ben Houchen has lost a High Court bid to block the region’s Brookfield-owned port, the UK’s fifth largest, from any access rights to its land....
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...persistent “culture of excessive confidentiality” and “lack of transparency” at the project and recorded a catalogue of governance failures at two public bodies chaired by the Tees Valley’s Conservative mayor, Lord...
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